The principles of Lean Six Sigma can be applied throughout the pharmaceutical value chain, from early project selection through clinical trials, manufacturing and distribution. A new book by quality and operational excellence expert, and Pharmatech president Bikash Chatterjee, examines issues, realities and possibilities. Included is a sample book chapter.
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You may know FMEA, Fault Tree and Fishbone methods, but do you know Bow-Tie risk assessment practices? Proven in aerospace and oil & gas industries, they can help strengthen top management connection to key areas of potential vulnerability.
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LRN's Latest Ethics and Compliance Program Effectiveness Report examines ethics and compliance across industries and finds that pharma still lags behind other industries. The report points to potential reasons and issues.
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Would you like to share your expertise in a case study or best practices article, or even just share a brief opinion in a blog post or commentary? Please consider writing for the Contract Pharma community. We've just updated our Writers' Guidelines to provide more input on graphics, and even received some unexpected help from a brand new expert named Al Yankovic.
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You’ve read our Interphex newsletters, but we will also report on what we saw first hand at this year’s show. Interphex 2014 was quite different from previous shows, with a new conference format, and it even featured a BIO-like gran…
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